- We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
- Mary Astell on Knowledge
- We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
- Li Ka Shing on Knowledge
- We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
- John Naisbitt on Knowledge
- We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken on Knowledge
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- Eric Hoffer on Knowledge
- We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
- Rory Bremner on Knowledge
- We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
- Franz Kafka on Knowledge
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Michel De Montaigne on Knowledge
- We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
- Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge
- We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
- Petra Nemcova on Knowledge
- We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
- Walt Disney on Knowledge
- We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Knowledge
- We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
- William Glasser on Knowledge
- We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
- Jack LaLanne on Knowledge
- We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
- Tavis Smiley on Knowledge
- We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
- Maria Mitchell on Knowledge
- We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
- Paul Broun on Knowledge
- We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
- Anne Sullivan Macy on Knowledge
- We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
- We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
- Arthur Erickson on Knowledge
- We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Knowledge
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
- J. J. Abrams on Knowledge
- We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
- John Archibald Wheeler on Knowledge
- We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
- We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
- Scott Adams on Knowledge
- We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.
- Richard Dreyfuss on Knowledge
- We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
- Clifford Geertz on Knowledge
- We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Knowledge
- We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
- Harold Bloom on Knowledge
- We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
- Matt Blunt on Knowledge
- We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
- Leon Jouhaux on Knowledge
- Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
- Abigail Adams on Knowledge
- Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
- Johnny Isakson on Knowledge
- Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
- Andy Grammer on Knowledge
- Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
- Vine Deloria, Jr. on Knowledge
- What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
- Jimmy Wales on Knowledge
- What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
- Elie Wiesel on Knowledge
- What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
- Jean-Francois Lyotard on Knowledge
- What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
- Cheech Marin on Knowledge
- What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Knowledge
- What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
- Will Harvey on Knowledge
- What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw on Knowledge
- When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
- Shirley MacLaine on Knowledge
- When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Knowledge
- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- Herbert Spencer on Knowledge
- When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
- Marvin Minsky on Knowledge
- When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.
- Joshua Foer on Knowledge
- When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
- John Cameron on Knowledge
- When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
- When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
- Joseph Lancaster on Knowledge
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